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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby
I still can't sing Southern Cross without choking up when I get to "she is all that I have left and Music is her name" and I've been singing it since it came out in late 1982.
Being hearing impaired means I don't always know the words to the songs (or what anyone is saying when they talk to me). But my impairment is such that I can isolate every instrument from a performance and hone in on just that one instrument. With CSN(and Y), I don't try. It's the harmony that is the instrument. It takes me to another place.
Yes does the same thing to me as well but in a totally different way. Cover your ears with a headset, give the bass just a TINY bump in volume and crisp up the midrange, and then jack the volume of that combo up a few notches. Then listen to Rick Wakeman's intro to Parallels and the fade-in of Steve Howe, Alan White, and Chris Squire on the Going for the One album. You might get a sense of how I "feel" when I listen to them. It just shoots a love-bullet right through my heart.
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Is this perhaps the cause of our hearing loss..... I spent my life with Music, it is my reason for living... and I remember everyone telling me I was going to be deaf when I got "older".... and they were right. I don't care if it was Pavarotti or Pink Floyd, Aerosmith to Uriah Heep, opera, classic to heavy metal, punk rock, country, the list goes on. But whatever it was, it was at max decibels. Would never be able to name a favorite. Can say my first was Gene Vincent in a little town in Pa in the 50s and thousands thru the years. Most memorable was probably Uriah Heep at the Pittsburgh Civic Arena, (the dome on that arena opened) and when they led into Wonderworld, the dome opened and revealed a gorgeous starry night.... awesome. I might add, what you could see of it through the cloud of smoke that escaped, lol.) Can't imagine what my life would have been without music and dance and theatre.... boring. If I were to mention most wished for in person, it would be Aerosmith and Pink Floyd. This has been a great post, has brought back a flood of memories for all of us.